Saturday, March 26, 2011

Current pics of my cutie patootie granddaughters (we were celebrating a family birthday)

Riley Ann (age 3)

Addyson Ann (21 months - Kelly's baby!)

Tucker Lynn (almost 5 months)

Riley and Tucker are sisters and I'm not sure how Jakob (age 4) eluded the camera but he did!

I'd also like to give a little shout out to my daughter Kelly, it's her birthday and we just got back from having a yummy Mexican dinner to celebrate her BIG30.My baby turned 30, can you tell me, where did the time go? I will return, I'm going to grab some tissue....I have returned.... I am composed.... I will survive!

Welcome to my Delightful friends and family! Here is a little card of thanks for all of you leaving such sweet comments! I'm having a blast with some of these challenges and today I'm playing along with the Spotted Chick (TKT#49) so I snuck in a bit of kraft card stock using my Martha Stewart picket fence punch. I'm also playing along with By LORi Designs Color Challenge #10

little more detail shown in this picture (little bit of bling on the pant legs!!)

Wednesday, March 23, 2011

Welcome to Delightful Details and welcome to the first week of Spring!! If you are here for the Taylored Expressions "Blast From the Past" blog hop you have come to the right place. At the end of this post is the list of participants and a whole lot of Spring Inspiration follows!!

The stamp I used is from the Creativitea set. I cut it out after stamping it on the designer paper. I used a Copic marker (R27) to fill in the red then added Glossy Accents to give it a little dimension and shine. The tiny flower is from the dp that I cut out and added a drop of Glossy Accents to the center, I also added the same flower to the sentiment. I used the Standard Circle, large Nestablility and the Classic Scallop Circle Nestie to create a focal point for the teapot.

Tuesday, March 22, 2011

Hello Delightful Friends and Family to this months Christian Paper Crafts"He is Risen" Blog Hop! Hope you'll participate by sharing your creation or join us by visiting all the participating blogs! Either way you'll find your starting place and all the important details at the Creative Blog. We hope to inspire you as we share our cards and projects celebrating the Resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Easter, or as we call it Resurrection Sunday is on April 24, but what better time than the present to celebrate and remember the death and the resurrection of our Savior. The grave could not hold Him and we celebrate that daily! Thank you Lord for that priceless gift of salvation.

Friday, March 18, 2011

Hooray, it's Friday! I thought it would be my day off but it's going to get really busy this afternoon as I look at my "to do" list! Bummer!! Oh well, such is the life in the Houston home.

BLDC9 and WMC47

I have been wanting to color this sweet little image for a while now! Isn't she a cutie and her little dog is quite the character too! Both images and the sentiment are digis from By LORi Designs. You can see another recent card (a couple of posts ago) I did featuring the kitty in the wagon that I digitally manipulated to make one image. Here I cut out the pup and used dimensionals to "pop the pup out." (Try saying that fast!!)

This card meets two challenges and both are a first for me to play along.

Thursday, March 17, 2011

Happy Thursday and a delightful St. Patrick's Day to you all!Thought for the Day:There are only three kinds of Irish men who can't understand women— young men, old men, and men of middle age. (Now that's a bit of truth if I ev'r heard one!)

I know it's hard to believe it, two days in a row to share a card!! I have another milestone to share with you all from Christian Paper Crafts, we are having our 100 Color challenge this week and it's a testament to all of our designers as well as our community that we've all supported each other long enough to get here! And since we are celebrating, we're going to give away a little something special to one lucky participant for this challenge. You have until next Sunday night, March 20th, at 6:00 PM EST to upload a card or add your direct link here. There will be a random winner chosen, who will receive something special from us at Christian Paper Crafts ! In two more weeks we will be celebrating the 100th Bible Verse Thursday challenge so be sure to stay tuned to see what Angie will have for us over at the Creative Blog.

This is our inspiration piece from Mary so have fun chosing your colors from this picture and don't forget to head over to the Creative Blog and upload your picture!

Here is my card and 3 challenges! Of course it's the color challenge but I've also included this weeks Bible Verse Thursday#98 (Heaven & Earth verse) and Gloria's sketch #99 (which I missed last week due to other committments!)

Wednesday, March 16, 2011

This week we are celebrating 100 sketches and 100 Color challenges at Christian Paper Crafts!! You will definitely want to head over to the Creative Blogand see how you can win a prize for commenting! Easy peasy!

Here is the sketch by Gloria Stengel! We are so proud of Gloria, she is now on the Spellbinders Design Team!! God bless you, Gloria! Continue to let your light shine!

Here is my card and as usual I'm taking some creative liberties. I know Gloria embraces creative liberties (tee-hee!!) and since there are no challenge police at CPC, I know I'm okay ;-)

CPC ST 100 (digi is a ByLoriDesign image)

I'm calling this card "Hitching a Ride" but haven't decided whether to make it a "hello, birthday, thank you" or just leave blank... love for you to make a suggestion to help me out so I can finish it!

Here are the details: For the image I used Publisher to resize our girl and wagon and then resized the Kitty (separate image) and placed it in the wagon. I'm getting rather fond of playing around with these! Then I printed it out on Neenah bright white cardstock. I colored it with my Copic markers and I'm sorry I didn't get the ones I used written down before putting them away! (oops!) I double matted the image with Bazzill card stock, then stitched in the corner and added red buttons for the wheels.

For the base I used white, then blue, then a red card stock all Bazzill. The designer paper is from the Green Stack (DCWV) and I stitched them all together using a zig zag stitch around the edge (you have to look close the thread is an off white and hard to see). A coordinating dp (DCWV - Green Stack) was used for the middle strip and I matted it in red then hand stitched in red embroidery floss (Making Memories) I used the We R Memory Keepers SEWeasy (straight stitch) paper piercer to get the nice even holes to stitch. The ribbon (Taylored Expressions) accent at the bottom was adhered and a flower button added.

Monday, March 14, 2011

Each design team member has given a little peek from their creations this past week on their blogs for all to see. You'll definitely want to check out the gallery over at CPC and get inspired with the gorgeous cards and projects the team has done. The big reveal is March 15th!! We have a fabulous Guest Designer this month and her name is Melisa Waldorf! Many are familiar with her blog Paperlicious Designs and her wonderful vintage/shabby chic style and you won't want to miss what she has done for us this month!

Technique and steps for focal point: Diecut 2 circles (2 sizes, 2 colors) and one scallop circle (for base of the other two circles). Stamp off ink (rich cocoa) and then stamp the nail cross onto white circle; stamp the Scripture with black ink; with Ranger Blending tool blend antique linen Distress Ink around the edges of top circle (white). The second circle is buttercream followed by the pomegranite card stock that was diecut with the scallop circle Nestabilities and pierced. The three pieces were adhered together and then attached to the card. I'm not the greatest in writing out the recipe for the card so if you have any questions please ask in the comment section!!

Thanks for looking and I hope you'll join us Tuesday March 15th for the reveal of the "He is Risen" Design Team Delights! God bless!

Friday, March 11, 2011

Hope you enjoy my new digi stamp from Sweet 'n Sassy StampsThis cute little bunny is Bethany and she is "enjoying" a spring rain! She is also available in a clear stamp set. I colored her with Copic markers and a little bit of Glossy Accents (Ranger) was added to the rain puddle and rain drops and her fancy boots! (see close up). Be sure and check out the other creations featuring the Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps for the Think Springcustomer blog hop! Thanks to Korin for sponsoring this blog hop! She is giving away a digi to all the participants and one random person (picked from all the comments) will win a gift certificate for $25 to Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps!!

(I also CASEd one of Korin's cards from her gallery at Christian Paper Crafts!)

Details:

Digi Stamp: Sweet 'n Sassy; Inkadinkadoo, sentiment;

Designer Paper: My Little Shoebox

Cardstock: Neenah, Bazzill, DCWV

Ink: computer, Palette, Black; Distress Ink, Broken China, Black Soot

Ribbon: Bazzill

Brad: Making Memories

Rhinestones: Queen and Co.

Liquid Pearls (on hair bow and flower) Ranger (peacock and buttercup)

Tools: Cuttlebug, Spellbinders Nestabilities deckled rectangle;

EK Success corner rounder and Scallop Diamond border punch

Copics: C1; BG10, 49, 09, 45; R37, 83, 000; G00, 24, 07; YR23, 07

Thanks for looking and have a wonderful weekend! I always look forward in reading the delightful comments and I'm excited to check out the other blogs! God bless!